[lazyant]

"Republican politicians () argued that many law-abiding families struggled to afford college and shouldn’t have pay for convicted criminals to get degrees"- while this opinion has merit, it shows again Republicans have no compassion, it's a paradox that many called themselves Christian when in the Bible Jesus explicitly commanded to help the imprisoned.

[asdfologist]

It's also incredibly short-sighted. Norway treats their prisoners with respect and invests in rehabilitating rather than punishing them, and guess what? Their recidivism rate is 20%, compared to 67% in the US.

[kaffeemitsahne]

Pretty sure higher education in Norway is also cheap/free for non-prisoners.

[ebfe]

Surely you see the difference between helping the poor vs. taking other people's money and using part of it to help the poor.

[akiselev]

Surely you see the difference between just taking other people's money vs requiring everyone above a certain means to pay into the social contract that brings order to chaos and keeps us from Darwinian anarchy?

[elektromekatron]

You're already paying for the jails. If you want to pay less for the jails, provide free college in jail. If you don't want taxes on the other hand, you have no prisoners to worry about educating anyway, as you have no jails. Or for that matter, schools, hospitals, army, police, paved roads, or stable currency.

[shadytrees]

Reminds me of the last minute of http://www.cc.com/video-clips/m38gcf/the-colbert-report-jesu...